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Questions from Students at the Divinity School

Friday, April 16, 2010

This week’s Swadharma discussion will focus on questions brought to us by Julie, Maytal and Willie, three students at the Harvard Divinity School who are doing a project on Hinduism this semester.
Their questions are designed to make us think critically about our experience as Hindus in America (which, coincidentally, is one of the purposes of [...]

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Selections from Rajaji’s Mahabharata

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

One of my many purchases on a recent trip to India was a copy of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari’s English translation of the Mahabharata.  Rajaji (1878-1972) was an important Indian statesman, but he spent a bit of his active life on literature and religion rather than politics.  His Mahabharata is ~450 pages long, which can hardly include [...]

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What is your purpose in life?

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Swadharma — a concept many people worry about, through many different names.
To determine Swadharma, one’s own duty, it is helpful to consider other perspectives on finding meaning. One way is through science — psychologist Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of Man’s Search for Meaning, encapsulated the natural quest to define Swadharma as a will to meaning. [...]

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